Diego Semerene

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For 299 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 37% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Diego Semerene's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Tomboy
Lowest review score: 0 The Roads Not Taken
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 156 out of 299
  2. Mixed: 43 out of 299
  3. Negative: 100 out of 299
299 movie reviews
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Kindergarten Teacher
    The film's denouement is at once shocking and organic because it echoes a well-paced but nasty children's fable.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Liv & Ingmar
    The documentary not only humanizes Ingmar Bergman as the absent lover-cum-father of everyday life, but works as a priceless oral history of cinema.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Mademoiselle C
    It's to Carine Roitfeld's own credit and director Fabien Constant's funky and frenetic pacing that the doc feels neither like a corporate hagiography nor like mere fashionista masturbation material.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Chambermaid
    Lila Avilés’s film reserves the possibility of flirtations with disaster to turn into acts of emancipation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Unclenching the Fists
    Unclenching the Fists is a tale of how the desolation of a nation inhabits and engraves a woman’s body.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Lure
    Agnieszka Smoczynska's film is most poignant when it simply stares at its own strangeness.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus
    The documentary is committed not to some pseudo-factual documentary tradition, but to a more engaging realist poesis.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Tiniest Place
    Going back to the scene of trauma is a familiar Latin American strategy for dealing with its wars and dictatorships through art, but The Tiniest Place takes a disturbingly literal approach to such wound-scratching homecoming.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Paris Calligrammes
    While Ulrike Ottinger accesses the most consequential of decades through nostalgia, she does so with humility.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Sorry Angel
    Much more interesting than Jacques and Arthur's relationship is Christophe Honoré's subtle portrait of the early '90s as a time of accelerated mortality and mourning, but also of material encounters of all kinds.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Great Man
    It exploits the military aesthetics that lend themselves so well to breathtaking sounds and visuals without fetishizing them.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Sunless Shadows
    Redolent of Claude Lanzmann’s approach, Mehrdad Oskouei strips his images to their barest bones as his subjects openly speak about their traumas, as if trying to avoid aestheticizing their pain.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Challenge
    Here the organic and the frivolously material aren't oppositions or rivals, but partners in a spectacle for men's eyes only.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    W.E.
    W.E.'s is a kind of dynamic pleasure that allows for non-shameful identification with the feminine and a fantasy of becoming what we see.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Young Hearts
    The film truthfully hints at the sharp whirs behind the smooth façade of everyday life.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Other People's Children
    The film’s most authentic moments are those that leave its main character breathless, cutting her plans for making up for lost time short.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Réquiem NN
    Filmmaker Juan Manuel Echavarría's hands-off approach hinders us from mocking the believers' naïveté.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Sauvage / Wild
    The film is a tale about how those who spiral so far out of control become blind, if not immune, to the severity of their symptoms.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Disappearance of My Mother
    It’s fascinating to see Benedetta Barzini in academic action, like an ethnographer of the patriarchy herself, bringing back news from its most glamourous yet rotten core.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Kids of Today
    While this uncataloguable and entrancing film gazes back in nostalgia to a time of performance-art priapism when everyone seems to have known Warhol, it also leaves room for a particularly hopeful diagnosis of the present.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Honey
    Driven by a no-nonsense ethos, the film avoids sentimentality the same way its main character avoids sentiment.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    12 Days
    With a tender and respectful gaze, 12 DAYS (@distribfilmsus) sheds light on the relationship between the French state and the mentally ill.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Silence of Others
    Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s documentary is monumental for its clamorous sounding of an alarm.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Ixcanul
    The film's structure, however stifling, is filled with gorgeous imagery and nuanced symbolism.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Welcome to Chechnya
    David France’s most remarkable accomplishment emerges from an aesthetic commitment of a very particular kind.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Wise Kids
    Hovering over the narrative is the fear of the domino effect that change can enact, the dread that one person's "queerness" may perhaps expose everyone else's.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    Fire Will Come
    The film is much more in synchrony with the haziness of its imagery when it preserves the awkwardness between characters, the impossibility for anything other than life’s basic staples to be exchanged.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    The Woman in the Septic Tank
    A lighthearted critique on the fetishized notion of the "non-actor," the ethics (or lack thereof) of the "docudrama," and the packaging of national despair for exportation.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Diego Semerene
    November
    Rainer Sarnet is as invested in telling a convoluted story that feels rooted in millennia-old folklore as he is in unabashedly experimenting with form and style for the sake of visual pleasure alone.
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